Here is a little video we made, for those who have not seen the show yet.
Neil Malone - there/now/here/then
Roman Liebach - a matter of Matter
09 February - 03 March
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Sunday, February 24, 2013
Saturday, February 23, 2013
Neil Malone review on Sub Machine
http://thesubmachine.wordpress.com/2013/02/09/neil-malone-feb-2013/
Words and images by Kent Wilson @ thesubmachine
The secret door, the hidden room, the entrance to the villain’s lair.
Remember those movies where someone felt along the wall, looking for
the right block of stone to push in? The stone that would depress and
open up a whole new space in the house. Or castle. I’m so compelled to
reach out and touch these highly haptic prints by Neil Malone that my
mind turns instantly to that memory. The surface of the prints is rich
in texture, complex in colouration. That idea of a portal release into
another space, another dimension, rings true of all good art. Art should
transport your mind and activate your central nervous system. Standing
here, enveloped by Neil’s prints, my body wants to move to them, then
into them. I feel their weight while knowing their lightness. My body
measures them while my eyes sweep endlessly over them.
Arranged in large grid formations the works read as building blocks, as strings of data, or as pixels. They are rhythmic visual poems, phrased and nuanced through patterned colour combinations and subtle internal shape variations. Like good language they usurp their supporting structure. As words on a page become visible realities inside your mind, freed from their typeset arrangements on paper, Neil’s prints free themselves from the wall. The grammar is abstracted like musical notation and the viewer is the conductor – seeking chordal combinations, finding refrains and a fermata for a pause.
Crack open each note though and you reveal a song. The unit is complex. Each pixel, each byte, is a packet of yet more data. Get up close and each print is a universe unto itself. Individuals reveal their identity in the crowded mass. Oscillating happily between the singular and the group it’s possible to pick up familial couplings. Cousined connections. Partners wave from within the crowd.
Layered and worked the prints are imbued with time and process. They are palimpsests of overwritten historical codes. Each print bears the weight of labour and poured application of the artist’s attention. And his intention. They are documents, as if a giant tome from a foreign culture laid bare for examination. All the pages laid in formation. This is information in formation. It’s DNA, software code and a colour score. It’s a feeling in your gut created by the fall of light on your eyes. It’s the urge to decipher puzzles couched in the willingness to surrender to beauty. It’s full and it’s embracing, and like a good symphony it’s been playing in my head since my first visit.
Words and images by Kent Wilson @ thesubmachine
Neil Malone, Feb 2013
Neil Malone, there/now/here/then
Stockroom Gallery, Kyneton; 9 February – 3 March 2013
Arranged in large grid formations the works read as building blocks, as strings of data, or as pixels. They are rhythmic visual poems, phrased and nuanced through patterned colour combinations and subtle internal shape variations. Like good language they usurp their supporting structure. As words on a page become visible realities inside your mind, freed from their typeset arrangements on paper, Neil’s prints free themselves from the wall. The grammar is abstracted like musical notation and the viewer is the conductor – seeking chordal combinations, finding refrains and a fermata for a pause.
Crack open each note though and you reveal a song. The unit is complex. Each pixel, each byte, is a packet of yet more data. Get up close and each print is a universe unto itself. Individuals reveal their identity in the crowded mass. Oscillating happily between the singular and the group it’s possible to pick up familial couplings. Cousined connections. Partners wave from within the crowd.
Layered and worked the prints are imbued with time and process. They are palimpsests of overwritten historical codes. Each print bears the weight of labour and poured application of the artist’s attention. And his intention. They are documents, as if a giant tome from a foreign culture laid bare for examination. All the pages laid in formation. This is information in formation. It’s DNA, software code and a colour score. It’s a feeling in your gut created by the fall of light on your eyes. It’s the urge to decipher puzzles couched in the willingness to surrender to beauty. It’s full and it’s embracing, and like a good symphony it’s been playing in my head since my first visit.
Saturday, February 9, 2013
Neil Malone, Roman Liebach Exhibition Launch
Some snaps from our first exhibition launch of 2013. Many red dots were to be had!
Friday, July 20, 2012
new is the new new
one of the fun things about working here is that because we sell and promote lots of art and hand-made creative objects, every new arrival of stock brings in completely new things. it's not like re-ordering another 100 boxes of ballpoint pens. we've got some new scarves in, some new gloves, some new dresses and even some books!
in a little flurry we've been getting in all this awesome stuff. a whole new clothes supplier - the amazing Obus - have come into the Stockroom mix
and
a new delivery of wonderful ceramics by Anne Ronjat arrived and found it's way onto one of our own 'Made by Stockroom' tables.
aside from the new artwork in the exhibition spaces this month, we have recently taken on some incredible art from Neil Malone. Neil is the head of print-making at one of Australia's premier art-schools, the VCA. his work is powerful and tender all at once. ghostly and evocative it somehow manages to create a depth on an otherwise flat piece of paper, without being spatial. how is that possible? i wanted to put some images on here to show you, but the camera kills out the impact and it wouldn't do it justice. you'll just have to see for yourself - we've curated a selection of Neil's prints right by the front entrance and they are already drawing curious eyes to them.
another new art addition is the work of Ann Brennan. limited edition giclee prints of her gorgeous collage and pencil artworks are on show - full of colour and playfully composed.
check out the detail in it:
this weekend is going to be the warmest weekend in over 2 months - pretty good time to come and get a closer look at all the new things we have.
in a little flurry we've been getting in all this awesome stuff. a whole new clothes supplier - the amazing Obus - have come into the Stockroom mix
and
a new delivery of wonderful ceramics by Anne Ronjat arrived and found it's way onto one of our own 'Made by Stockroom' tables.
aside from the new artwork in the exhibition spaces this month, we have recently taken on some incredible art from Neil Malone. Neil is the head of print-making at one of Australia's premier art-schools, the VCA. his work is powerful and tender all at once. ghostly and evocative it somehow manages to create a depth on an otherwise flat piece of paper, without being spatial. how is that possible? i wanted to put some images on here to show you, but the camera kills out the impact and it wouldn't do it justice. you'll just have to see for yourself - we've curated a selection of Neil's prints right by the front entrance and they are already drawing curious eyes to them.
another new art addition is the work of Ann Brennan. limited edition giclee prints of her gorgeous collage and pencil artworks are on show - full of colour and playfully composed.
check out the detail in it:
this weekend is going to be the warmest weekend in over 2 months - pretty good time to come and get a closer look at all the new things we have.
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